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Energy in Developing Economies
Estimating the U.S. Dollar Depreciation Effect on Oil Prices (A. Al-Qahtani, ...
Record high oil prices during the first half of 2008 left many arguing about which market factor contributed the most to these dramatic price increases. Consuming nations blamed it on fac...
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Econometric Model of Electricity Demand in Turkey as a Measure of Economic Gr...
Melike Bildirici and Tahsin Bakirtas, “Econometric Model of Electricity Demand in Turkey as a Measure of Economic Growth and Development,” This article develops an econometric model of el...
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Rural Electrification in Developing Countries: Conflicts between Local Techno...
Kaoru Yamaguchi and Akihiro Watabe, “Rural Electrification in Developing Countries: Conflicts between Local Technological Innovation and the National Electrification Policy,” Increasing t...
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Blazing the Green Path: Renewable Energy and State-Society Relations in Costa...
Utilizing Peter Evans’ concept of institutional “embedded autonomy,” this article examines Costa Rica’s anomalous success with renewable energy. Analysis of the relationship between the C...
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Natural Gas and Inequality in Bolivia after Nationalization (L. Andersen, J. ...
The high oil prices and the sharp increases in royalties mean that the natural gas boom in Bolivia has become very important for the economy. This paper uses a computable general equilib...
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Foreign Aid to Promote Energy Efficiency in Mexico: An Institutional Analysis...
Due to lag effects and the lack of proximity to final results, the performance of foreign aid involving technical assistance and training (TA/T)—for example, vocational training of energy...
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Could Mexico Be an Important Source of Uncertainty for Oil Markets? Recent Tr...
Mexico is one of the world’s largest oil exporters, and it has a strategic role as a supplier in North America. However, the state company, Petróleos Mexicanos (PEMEX) has been under fin...
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Pricing Coal Ash for Environmental Protection (R. J. Chelliah, R. Pandey, & U...
Indian coal contains 30-40 percent ash (on average), which is far higher than in many other countries. Coal ash has serious implications for air, water, and land pollution. Even though th...
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The Sri Lankan Electricity Supply Industry: A Critique of Proposed Reforms (H...
In 2002 the government of Sri Lanka proposed power-sector policy guidelines for the first time in its history in order to facilitate the restructuring of the sector. This paper attempts ...
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How Community Participation Can Integrate Energy Transitions into Rural Devel...
If technology-based energy projects at the rural level are expected to yield real and long-term benefits to the end users, it is essential that they incorporate community participation at...
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The Implications of Graduation: Why Developing Countries Will Never Produce M...
It is commonly stated that, in a few decades or less, developing countries will be producing more greenhouse gas emissions than developed nations. This is unlikely to be true, however, b...
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Household Energy in Nigeria: The Challenge of Pricing and Poverty in Fuel-Swi...
Every society practices fuel-switching as its economic development gets under way. This is usually from traditional fuels to modern commercial fuels. This paper looks at such a transiti...
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A Dynamic Forecasting Model of Oil Demand by Developing Countries by Chongwoo...
In this paper, a linear model of the demand for oil is derived from a cost minimization problem in which demand depends on the price of oil, the price of coal, and output. The theoretica...
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Growing Energy Needs of Emerging Economies: Challenges and Ambitions by Hamdi...
Energy, as the fuel for economic and social development, has a pivotal role in the lives of people world-wide. Large quantities of energy will be required in the coming two decades. Eco...
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Testing of Barriers to the Adoption of Energy-Efficient Lamps in Nepal by Ram...
This paper tests the statistical validity of various hypotheses on consumer-level barriers to the adoption of selected energy-efficient lamps in the case of Nepal, a developing country. ...
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